Plasmodium falciparum antigens on the surface of the gametocyte-infected erythrocyte

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Saeed, Maha ^a   Roeffen, Will ^b   Alexander, Neal ^a   Drakeley, Christopher J ^a   Targett, Geoffrey A T ^a   Sutherland, Colin J ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURFACE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SCHIZONT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 48449093040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002280     Document Type: Article

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